Audrey Hinchcliffe celebrates her 85th birthday with party at the Terra Nova
Al Edwards / Our Today
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Audrey Hinchcliffe, the founder and chair of Manpower& Maintenance Services celebrated her 85th birthday yesterday and what a life it has been!
She is an entrepreneur and businesswoman from whom many can draw lessons and inspiration.
Hinchcliffe is the embodiment of tenacity, grit, grace, ingenuity, confidence and acumen.
There is always an element of style with Audrey.
She celebrated her birthday with family, friends colleagues, staff and business associates at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston with many including former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson and Scotia Group Jamaica CEO Audrey Tugwell-Henry extending good wishes.
Audrey’s vibrancy at 85 was here for all to see and her vim and vigour belies her age.
How she started her business sums up Audrey.
Returning from working in Guyana and looking to establish herself in Jamaica she recounted: “People saw me as too experienced, overeducated and too outspoken. No one wanted me, so I started my own company called Caribbean Health Management Consultants Limited.”
In 2003 she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
That company grew into Manpower & Maintenance Services Limited thirty years ago and today employs 3,000 people and has spawned many subsidiaries including the Institute for Workforce Education & Development (IWED). Audrey is mercurial and indomitable but with oodles of charm. She has authored four books and has plans to continue with more.
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